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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






2. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






3. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






4. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






5. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






6. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






7. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






8. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






9. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






10. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






11. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






12. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






13. The person who 'tells' the story.






14. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






15. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






16. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






17. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






18. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






19. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






20. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






21. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






22. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






23. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






24. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






25. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






26. A four line stanza in a poem.






27. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






28. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






29. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






31. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






32. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






33. What a story or play is about.






34. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






35. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






36. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






37. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






38. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






39. The time and place of a story or play.






40. A short saying with a moral.






41. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






42. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






43. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






44. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






45. A poem that tells a story.






46. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






47. A character struggles against some outside force.






48. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






49. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






50. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.